Personal CBG #1 - The Rubber-Bridge Experiment
Most folks who know me also know I like to modify and work on guitars as much as I like to play them. In 2023 I had some experimental finishes I was trying to do fail miserably , and basically the amount of work I would have had to put into stripping the bodies back down and starting over just felt like a level of surrender I wasn't willing to concede to. Instead, I decided to pull out a jigsaw, turn the bodies into center blocks and get some nice quality wooden cigar boxes that would be big enough to make a standout Cigar Box Guitar. This was my first CBG, and it (like its tune-o-matic equipped twin) remains in my studio to this day being put to work recording and inspiring new song ideas. Going into cigar box guitar building, I wanted something that was built for a guitar player, by a guitar player. Something that I could easily whip out a slide and play, or play it like a normal guitar. So using the middle strip of the body of a ruined electric guitar as a mounting point for a...
